Hello, I'm a very immature vb.net developer and for fun I've decided to try and come up with a simple poker game. The problem I've run into is I have computer players who are going to place bets based on odds. I got the odds from some random poker site and there are ALOT (not surprising considering all the combinations of cards). So what I need help with is, right now the way i get the odds is a very long and ugly if then statement. It doesn't work. I have no experience with databases but one question would be is this a suitable situation for a database? and if so I need help creating one and reading from it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks